Wine, supper & Flamenco Vivo at Kaatsbaan in Tivoli
Saturday, May 13: It’s a special event called Jardín Andaluz, and it will incorporate a full flamenco performance with wine and supper, accompanied by Spanish classical guitar.
Entertainment
Sanford Gifford’s scenic landscapes on view at Cedar Grove
The artists of the Hudson River School captured their landscapes in a way that strikes a chord with all of us. We look at their paintings and our hearts beat as one with theirs.
Beethoven’s Ninth at UPAC in Kingston
Saturday, April 29: There are scholars who contend that late-18th-century German poet Friedrich Schiller’s original version of “Ode to Joy” was titled “Ode to Freedom,” but that he subsequently toned down its potential political implications. The rebellious spirit of the work was reinforced in Ludwig von Beethoven’s 1824 musical setting in his Symphony no. 9 in D minor, op. 125, and people around the world have since embraced it as an expression of defiance, solidarity and survival as well as pure exultation.
24-Hour Drone Festival at Basilica Hudson
Saturday & Sunday, April 29-30: There is an old Zen proverb that you may have heard: “You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes every day, unless you’re too busy. Then you should sit for an hour.” I like to imagine that the organizers of Basilica’s famous 24-Hour Drone Festival feel similarly about the agency of drone-based music: Those with the least patience for it are those who need it the most.
BSP hosts Breakfast for the Boys album release show
Friday, April 28: As a young band, B4tB simply smoked the clubs of New Paltz and environs. Most people who caught them by accident would thenceforward catch them on purpose.
Kids’ Almanac (4/27-5/3)
Bright Ideas and Beltane festivals plus a free community celebration in Kingston.
“Sanford R. Gifford in the Catskills” opens at Thomas Cole site
Sunday, April 30: Although Gifford grew up in Hudson and was directly influenced by Cole, very few of Gifford’s paintings – including those of iconic viewsheds in the Catskills – ended up in art collections within the immediate region. So it’s a rare treat indeed when an exhibition is brought together for display hereabouts.
John Cariani’s Cul-de-Sac on stage in Hyde Park
Opening Saturday, April 29: Considering that his Almost, Maine recently supplanted A Midsummer Night’s Dream as the most frequently performed play in US high schools, and that his Love/Sick is being produced by community theatrical companies all over the map as well, actor/playwright John Cariani could just sit on his laurels from here on in, living very well indeed off his residuals. But he’s at it again, tweaking a macabre comedy about consumerist suburbanites with something to hide. The playwright will attend opening night.
Malcolm Cecil’s 80th birthday bash
Saturday, April 29: Jazz bassist, producer, composer, electronic music pioneer: Malcolm Cecil has quietly had about as varied and storied a music career as one could quietly have. He won a Grammy for engineering on Stevie Wonder’s greatest record, Innervisions. His innovative duo Tonto’s Expanding Head Band made what is widely considered to be essential early electronic music, and was, in a bizarre turn, recently referenced on TBS’ popular show People of Earth.
Chronixx plays Bearsville
Saturday, April 29: Born Jamar Rolando McNaughton, Jamaican musician Chronixx has emerged as a leading figure in the next generation of Jamaican recording artists.